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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






2. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service






3. Information system consisting of tools and techniques to gather - integrate and disseminate the outputs of project management processes.






4. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






5. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






6. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle






7. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






8. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval






9. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






10. Planning technique used to provide products - services and results that truly reflect customer requirements by translating those customer requirements into the appropriate technical requirements for each phase of project product development






11. Condition or situation unfavorable to the project - a negative set of circumstances - a negative set of events - a risk that will have a negative impact on a project objective if it occurs - or a possibility for negative changes






12. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines






13. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






14. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






15. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






16. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






17. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






18. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.






19. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






20. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives






21. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






22. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






23. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






24. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






25. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






26. Processes that organize and manage the project team






27. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






28. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






29. Expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work breakdown structure component or project.






30. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






31. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






32. The amount of funds - budget - or time needed above the estimate to reduce the risk of overruns of project objectives to a level acceptance to the organization






33. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






34. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






35. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






36. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






37. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.






38. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






39. Float (total float - free float)






40. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






41. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






42. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






43. An artifact that is produced - is quantifiable and can be either an end item in itself or a component item






44. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






45. A histogram - ordered by frequency of occurrence - that shows how many results were generated by each identified cause






46. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






47. Type of procurement document used to request proposals from prospective sellers of products or services.






48. A component of work performed during the course of a project






49. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






50. Describes when and how human resource requirements will be met